Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera [Large Print] [Paperback]

Victor Appleton (Author)

Book Description

Book number 14 in the original Tom Swift series.

Tom Swift has gone through four series and through generations of the Tom Swift family. Quiet Vision has republished the first twenty five titles in the original Tom Swift series. The original Tom Swift series is referred to as Tom Swift Sr.

Quiet Vision tracks Tom Swift from "His Motor Cycle" to "His Electric Locomotive." Many characters reoccur through the series including: Mary Nestor, who Tom eventually marries, Mr. Damon who is always blessing almost everything, Eradicate Sampson and his mule Boomerang who is braver and more intelligent than assumed and many others.

Called an inventor, Tom Swift is more of a talented mechanic with a special love for airships and airplanes.

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This book is a large print version using a minimum of 16 point type in a 6 by 9 inch size and perfect bound - a paperback. As with all Quiet Vision print books, it use a high grade, acid free paper for long life.

Product Details

• Paperback: 176 pages
• Publisher: Quiet Vision Pub (July 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 1576463931
• ISBN-13: 978-1576463932
• Product Dimensions: 7.8 x 5.1 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 0.8 ounces (View shipping rates and policies)
• Average Customer Review: 4.5 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)

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4.0 out of 5 stars Tom acts more as a simple tourist rather than as a major inventor, November 28, 2008

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Charles Ashbacher (Marion, Iowa United States) - See all my reviews
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This review is from: Tom Swift and His Wizard Camera (Paperback)

Like the rest of the books in the original Tom Swift series, the inventions featured in this one are evolutionary rather than revolutionary. Written in 1912, the movie camera had been perfected sometime earlier in the labs of Thomas Edison, so Tom's role here is to improve it. Hired by a man named Period, Tom and his group fly in his airship invented in a previous book and travel around the world and use his "wizard camera" to film action movies to be played in theaters.
They film the movement of big game, a war between African tribes, avalanches in the European Alps and a volcano in South America. They have rivals hired by a competitor in the film industry, but the competitors are not very determined or ruthless. Therefore, there is no great intensity and the danger is more of location and circumstances rather than generated by humans.
In some ways, the story here is an extension of the classic Verne story of "Around the World in Eighty Days." In this case, it is about observing the world and some of the wonders for display to the movie viewing public that is growing more interested each passing day. More an adventure than a story about science and technology, this Tom Swift tale has Tom making some foolish moves in order to get the best shots, in other words behaving like a tourist.

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5.0 out of 5 stars Tom Swift Books, September 3, 2005

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Bruce B. Bushore Jr. "Three-B" (Utah) - See all my reviews
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I was very pleased with the service and the books were just what I ordered